Disability Support Worker

**Disability Support Workers**
- Rare opportunities available for new staff to join the Minda team to assist with backfill of annual leave over the next 6 months.
- Flexibility of availability is important to cover a range of shifts to fulfill these roles.
- In addition, permanent part time opportunities may be also available.
- Engage with active support to fulfill our client’s goals

**About the Role**

We have opportunities for experienced Disability Support Worker to support our amazing clients.
- Position based mostly in the Southern Suburbs.
- Interested in short term opportunities to fill a various of shifts, including a mix of am/pm shifts, active/passive, rotating rosters.
- You want to engage in providing active support to our clients.

**Please note: If you have previously applied for Disability Support Worker roles within Minda there is no need to re-apply.**

**As a Disability Support Worker with our Home and Living Support teams, you will be**:

- Engaging with a focus on supporting person-centred active care, this may include health care, medication administration, personal care and hygiene, transport, education, cooking and domestic duties
- Empowering the people you support to make choices and decisions about all aspects of their life, focusing on their needs and goals
- Supporting individuals to connect, get involved with and maintain networks within the community
- Working collaboratively with your team to ensure consistency of service delivery
- Getting involved to plan and engage with activities for the individual you support with a keen focus on their interests
- Communicating positively and professionally with the people we support, their networks and stakeholders

**Your experience and abilities are**:

- Flexible to work in Southern Suburbs
- Demonstrated experience supporting individuals with a disability, that includes experience with those who exhibit challenging behaviours
- Proficient written and verbal communication, and able to use your communication skills to build rapport with the people we support
- Available to commit to a range of shifts and rotating rosters.

**Your skills and qualifications are**:

- _Minimum_ completed Certificate III Individual Support, Disability or Aged Care
- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance
- DHS Working with Children Check (WWCC) (Issued prior to 1st February 2021)
- Current First Aid Certificate including updated CPR (HLTAID009 & HLTAID001)
- Valid Unrestricted Driver's Licence
- Unrestricted Working Rights
- NDIS Worker Orientation Module
- Medication Certificate (Already in place or willing to obtain post interview - via SALC or Learning Simplified (only these providers are accepted, cost is $128)

At **Minda,** we provide services and support to enable people living with an intellectual disability to reach their personal health and wellbeing goals and live their best lives.

As the state’s largest not-for profit provider of disability services, we provide supported independent living accommodation, stimulate continuous personal growth and development through supported employment and various community engagement options as well as allied health and respite services.

As a value-driven not-for-profit organisation, we are passionate about achieving greater outcomes and creating more meaningful experiences for both our clients and our staff.

**Our Values**

**Respect**: We respect the right of people with intellectual disability.
**Heart**: We show care and love in everything that we do.
**Opportunity**: We focus on what people can do rather than what they cannot do.
**Community**: We understand that community is important to people’s lives. We want to make the community more inclusive where everyone is valued.

**Why choose Minda?**
- Enjoy a sense of value and purpose, working for an essential service provider, whilst significantly impacting the lives of the people we support
- A supportive, highly skilled, and collaborative team environment
- Flexibility for work life balance and independence
- Opportunities for professional development and career growth
- Attractive remuneration including salary packaging (up to $15,900 per FBT) and additional benefits

**How to apply**

**_Minda recognises that diversity in our workforce better equips us to support our clients’ individualised aspirations and goals. So, if you’re a person living with a disability, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, part of the LGBTQIA+ community, from a culturally or linguistically diverse background or unique in any other way we would love to hear from you._